  
| Author: | Macaronis  | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 00:58 | | Subject: | Re: BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, UTLF writes:
| | | | There ARE solutions - basic ones like Captcha, delays (like 24 hrs before posting), plus many FAR more effective.
Problem is, many newbies find BrickLink's a great community because they create an account and post a question like "What's this piece?" or "How do I build this?", or...
So the more you'll make it difficult, the more newbies won't access BrickLink Forum.
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It's a Captcha, not the Da Vinci code; it's not like it's new technology,
people solve Captchas all the time (and bots still can't, even with current
AI for the most part)
Solve 1 captcha per 24 hours until you get 1 positive feedback, problem solved
- the captcha verifies you as human, you can post all you want for the next 24
hours without needing to solve another one (unless you switch IPs)
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Majority don't have a fixed IP.
Any hacker can register on a site API (I won't cite) where humans are paid
(LOL) $1 for 1000 captchas to solve them, 24/365 
And still the same complexity you can't solve on your chair: weight of the
problem vs cost of a solution + what other problems it'll create.
I give up, and wait for the next Gummy post.
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The easy answer is just remove the Forum like we did the chat. While some might
think the forum is important. Considering the direction of flow seems to go only
one way it would be easier just to have administration Level Posting only and
just get rid of the rest. We don't need to hear about Sales that are NOT
sales. We do not need the same questioned asked once a month for the last 10
years. We don't need any help Iding Parts... Just take the time to look.
PROBLEM and Security Solved.
Move along there is nothing to see here.
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